Sep 22, 2014 | iRead Fiction, iRead New Writers, iRead Non-Fiction
Anne Waldman reads from and discusses Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology, along with poet and translator Laura Wright, who co-edited the collection. Eleni Sikelianos reads from and discusses You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek.
Sep 15, 2014 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Fiction, iRead Mysteries
New York Times bestselling thriller writer James Rollins discusses his new book The 6th Extinction: A SIGMA Force Novel. From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.
Sep 8, 2014 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Fiction, iRead Mysteries
Stephen King has called Chet “a canine Sam Spade full of joie de vivre,” and Robert B. Parker dubbed Spencer Quinn‘s writing “major league prose.” Listen to Quinn as he reads from and discusses his new book Paw and Order: A Chet and Bernie Mystery.
Sep 1, 2014 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Fiction
Deborah Harkness reads from and discusses The Book of Life, the highly anticipated finale to her New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Discovery of Witches. After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies.
Aug 25, 2014 | iRead Fiction, iRead New Writers
Carrie La Seur, an energy and environmental lawyer in Billings, Montana, reads from and discusses her remarkable debut novel The Home Place. A mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, The Home Place follows a successful lawyer as she is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister’s death.
Aug 18, 2014 | iRead Fiction, iRead New Writers
Mira Jacob reads from and discusses her critically-acclaimed debut novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Spanning India in the 1970s to New Mexico in the ’80s to Seattle in the ’90s, Jacob’s story is a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past.